Archives for 2007

After a lot of research and thought, I’ve started putting orders in for some of the gear we are buying for our trip. Not all of it is just for this trip – we’re just using this as an excuse to buy stuff we’ve been wanting for a while. It will get a lot of use … [Read More »]

I’ve had trouble for a couple of years finding comfortable underpants. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been buying Holeproof Underdaks Hipsters – they were the only underpants that were comfortable enough for me. I have many pairs of other brands sitting in my drawer that I’ve bought over the years to try … [Read More »]

We’ve been doing a bit of research for a while now into travel gear and trying to decide what we need to take with us. We have decided to buy some travel packs rather than using our wheeled Samsonite luggage that I usually travel with. This should make it easier to get on and off … [Read More »]

We hit our first snag for our trip planning today – there is a 4 night boat cruise we are planning around the Tierra del Fuego area of Patagonia, and the date we wanted was fully booked out already. We did some re-thinking of our itinerary – originally we were thinking of starting with some … [Read More »]

Okay, we’ve finalised our planned itinerary, so I’ve been able to book our flights there and back. We’ll be using a combination of air, bus and boat travel on our trip, so I’ve decided to book us return flights from Sydney to Santiago, then internal flights using LAN (possibly booked via Zuji – they are usually cheapest I’ve found) … [Read More »]